Example sentences of "carried the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , in the event Mubarak largely carried the Egyptian public with him to the extent that even staunch opponents such as the Moslem Brotherhood supported his policies .
2 The candelabra were brought out and , with her tongue jutting anxiously out from between her teeth , Annie carried the good plate into the dining room .
3 It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor .
4 However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) .
5 Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote .
6 As the travellers walked away the strongman carried the huddled figure into the brothel .
7 This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding .
8 He also wore a helmet , and carried the traditional scramasax as a second sword , as well as a spear with a large crosspiece behind the blade , and a round shield .
9 She eventually carried the Welsh language with her , later in life , to the clannish Welsh community that developed around the Great Western Railway works in Swindon .
10 The 24-times capped Herioter has noticed an alarming trend developing in the way a match which will carried the added prize of the Calcutta Cup is portrayed .
11 Roseburn Bridge originally dates from 1899 , when it carried the Caledonian Railway from Slateford to West Granton .
12 I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience after a prolonged debate .
13 The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through
14 The twelfth century examples are simple and tall with nave , single aisles , three apses carried the full height of the building and a tall cupola covering the crossing supported on six piers .
15 ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water .
16 In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan .
17 Although certain other lines had their own Royal vehicles and carried our own and foreign Royalty more frequently than the LNWR , it was in the main the Wolverton LNWR and later LMSR train that carried the Royal family on long railway journeys .
18 Huddersfield 's jerseys carried the white rose of Yorkshire while Preston 's sported the red of Lancashire .
19 The man carried the limp body to where the Saab was parked .
20 Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space .
21 Thirty years old — five years older than Richard — she carried the unmistakable air of not being easily impressed by anything , or anyone .
22 In his agitation , Gaily carried the brown bag of washing all the way back home .
23 Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword .
24 Retired generals dressed in white carried the flag-draped coffin from the plane .
25 Right : Pandora Captain John McCann carried the Red Ensign at the commemorative service in Liverpool 's Anglican cathedral
26 It is wrong to represent the Majority Report as standing on the side of ‘ reaction ’ , whilst the Minority carried the red flag of progress .
27 Next day , La Clava carried the bloodthirsty story of how the king of one of the United Arab Emirates had murdered his brother for love of a gorgeous American woman named Maria Nuria Nussberg .
28 Today Roy Everson who was disabled when he was just twenty one carried the British flag into the bowling finals .
29 The fishermen carried the dead body to the nearest house .
30 He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay .
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